American Empire : : A Global History / / A. G. Hopkins.
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America in the World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1008 p.) :; 3 tables. 8 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Preface
- PROLOGUE: Lessons of Liberation Iraq, 1915- 1921
- CHAPTER 1. Three Crises and An Outcome
- PART I. DECOLONIZATION AND DEPENDENCE 1756- 1865
- CHAPTER 2. The Advance and Retreat of The Military- Fiscal State
- CHAPTER 3. From Revolution to Constitution
- CHAPTER 4. The Struggle for Independence
- CHAPTER 5. Wars of Incorporation
- PART II. MODERNITY AND IMPERIALISM 1865- 1914
- CHAPTER 6. Uneven Development and Imperial Expansion
- CHAPTER 7. Achieving Effective Independence
- CHAPTER 8. Acquiring an Unexceptional Empire
- CHAPTER 9. Insular Perspectives on an Intrusive World
- Intermission Tarzan's Mirror to Modernity
- PART III. EMPIRES AND INTERNATIONAL DISORDER 1914- 1959
- CHAPTER 10. The Modern Imperial System: From Conquest to Collapse
- CHAPTER 11. Ruling the Forgotten Empire
- CHAPTER 12. Caribbean Carnival
- CHAPTER 13. Paradise in the Pacific
- CHAPTER 14. "The Twilight of Confused Colonialism"
- PART IV. THE OUTCOME: POSTCOLONIAL GLOBALIZATION
- CHAPTER 15. Dominance and Decline in the Postcolonial Age
- EPILOGUE. Lessons of Liberation Iraq, 2003- 2011
- Notes
- Index